Works in Progress

Nanobot

The top one reads the best, in terms of contrast. I like the bottom one, but it needs some edge or rim lighting to bring the kicking woman out of the background and a light in Zeke's face to also keep it from looking like he's attacking the ground.

Just look at the teeny thumbnails under your post--which one tells the story best? That's one way to get a handle on what's effective.

BTW, sounds like Vue's lighting and rendering is fairly similar to Luxrender--it does indeed use real global radiosity and you can do the same sorts of things with making objects truly glow. And yeah, it's a whole other workflow from Poser. Poser is somewhat simpler in that regard, although the latest version at least does indirect lighting and ambience.

Raetjor

I 'd go with the last one. It looks like a proper evening fight lighting wise. the shadows and light from the right nicely lift your nose-bleeding figment (sure I saw his name just seconds ago) and give a nice bit of contrast.

Raetjor

Trying portraits, I know, nothing special, just WM v4 with nicer fluted ears using sss in poser 2012.

Wayii

Her upper lip needs more of a bow to mitigate the botox bloat look, but aside from that, it's lovely.

ladyfur

third one is best. you have to extend the blood to get rid of that optical
illusion to you know who, because that is distracting. btw, your gallery is really nice. i was very impressed by they things you made in the way of clothing and using textures...

a few images were blocked... i'm not a member so i guess i got, 'carded',
lol. i haven't been carded since the 80's...

dylazuna

Thanks to everyone for your comments, I'll go see if I can finish it off now :)

Nan: 'Fraid I don't know anything about Vue other than the very beautiful images I've seen people create with it, so you could be right.

BTW all of the images I posted have the same lighting, I just changed the camera and film settings whilst rendering to get the different effects.

Raet: That's a lovely character portrait. I agree with Wayii though about the upper lip. Think I would widen and maybe deepen the philtrum a little so there is a more obvious bow. Also check from the side view as from the front it looks as if the lower lip juts out more than the upper by a fraction. I love the hair and eyes. The hair looks really soft and fluffy. Leather collar is nice too ;)

Lady: Thanks for taking the time to peruse the gallery. Yep, 'fraid you need to log-in to 'prove' you are old enough to view the 'mature' stuff. Although they do have a problem with kids lying about their age or using their older siblings account. As to the clothing. I really need to make more use of Marvelous Designer and put some of those old dress cutting skills to use.

Mavrosh

A Test Render of mine... For some reason I cannot get enough of this guy at the moment. Thought I could share him here and maybe - if anyone has - suggestions would be nice for his environment. :) Maybe he leans against some pillar? What about the lights? Should there be more colors, other than the cold and bright ones?

Sorry for the small size as this is a little testy thing only. His hair takes forever to render because of the chrome look. Also about his ... pants: I removed the side straps because with photoshop I will reduce the leather front a lot more so only the important parts are covered. The top of the leather will be attached directly to his body with a chrome button. :)

So far I am quite satisfied with this... it will be a very different kind of pin up... but I feel like the special something is missing still...

Terre

An interesting cyber-elf sort. Hmm... If I think of any suggestions, I'll mention them.

Mavrosh

Cool, thank you! :)

Terre

You're welcome. :)

Mavrosh

At the moment he is leaning against some tube / pillar kind of thing. I will see to get a test render done... but then my machine is almost dead and a test render takes forever plus I always need to restart after rendering.

Mavrosh

Fighting with the lights... also gonna edit the upper part of that pillar to create a beautiful light reflection... and not that... light splash up there. Background will be added of course. And yeah, clipping and such... will be gone with the final picture of course. :)

Raetjor

On going... Quite happy with the lighting and the camera angle in this in general, not sure about the pink jacket, though.

Mavrosh

The camera angle is very nice! And why no pink jacket? I like pink. =^.^=

LT_Roberts

The pink is fine, but the expressions on the women are a bit odd. Especially the one in pink. She looks as if she is puffing up her cheeks while pressing her lips together.

Agreed that the angle works.

Nanobot

There's actually a lot of pink and mauve in the picture, so that works. Something is odd with the pink jacket girl's mouth! Not sure, as it's all pretty blurry.

I wonder why they're running, and why the person on the balcony is watching them so calmly.

LT_Roberts

... and why the third in the group looks like she's trying to take flight! ;)

puffle_huff

Nupe, ain't got nothing to post! >:U ....yet.

I have a work in progress but that *progress* has been halted and I REFUSE to go on until I get certain components in order. I whined about the lack of chest hair on on of my characters and, though it won't be noticeable by most, I'll know it's not there. I just recently switched from DAZ to Poser and a lot of my old content doesn't work in PP2012. I figured I could get away with is, but I swear Gabriel's(my toons) bald chest is haunting me like the Ghost of Christmas Past.

I could just paint in it, but I'm not even gonna lie when I say I'm too lazy for all that. I'm the type to pay someone to do it, or buy something to do it for me. :\

There's a whole mess of other stuff I can complain about, but I'll just keep quiet and lurk in here for the REAL works in progress.

/broods

Nanobot

Until lately, Studio stuff would work in Poser. Not the recent shaders, but Poser has a zillion good shaders available as replacements (buy/free/beg).

You have a toon character, huh? I was going to say that LT and I (and others) have used Jepe's M4 Hairy with great success, albeit a tiny bit of adjustment required.

If there's something missing, you might be able to get help if you told us what it was. We're nice that way. >.>

Raetjor

Nanobot said:
There's actually a lot of pink and mauve in the picture, so that works. Something is odd with the pink jacket girl's mouth! Not sure, as it's all pretty blurry.

I wonder why they're running, and why the person on the balcony is watching them so calmly.

That's because the one who LT thinks is taking flight is where the focus point was, but it doesn't quite work.

I'm rethinking it. Daddy Deadshot is goingto take a pop at them I think, and all that it'll require I think will be aa slightly ajusted pose from him and a postworked red laser dot on the back of the front runner's jacket. I was also thinking of doing the running froup as a layer, which would allow me to "motion blur" them and keep Master Deadshot crisp and un-blurred.

As for the girl with the pink jacket, she is actually biting her lower lip while running hence the strange expression, but my thinking is to change her expresssion, mind you once she gets motion blurred there might not be much left to make out..., hmm, predicament, predicament...

Raetjor

LT_Roberts said:

... and why the third in the group looks like she's trying to take flight! ;)

Originally it was just her and Daddy Deadshot on his balcony, who I wanted to try and let laugh in a manaical fashion, but I couldn't get it to work. Anyways, in the original it was much easier to see that she was running, not taking flight.

Nanobot

If I may be so bold, this sounds more like a sequence than a single image. You could do a triptych (three slim panels out of this without any problem, and thereby retain the really nice action sequence. I have an idea about that, if you want it.

Raetjor

Nanobot said:
If I may be so bold, this sounds more like a sequence than a single image. You could do a triptych (three slim panels out of this without any problem, and thereby retain the really nice action sequence. I have an idea about that, if you want it.

Ooh, I like that. I have never tried to do a triptych. Hit me!

Terre

Toon fans Capsces is putting both stores on sale. : http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=186186&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Nanobot

Raetjor said:

Nanobot said:
If I may be so bold, this sounds more like a sequence than a single image. You could do a triptych (three slim panels out of this without any problem, and thereby retain the really nice action sequence. I have an idea about that, if you want it.

Ooh, I like that. I have never tried to do a triptych. Hit me!

I recall this being used to good effect in comics. Like, the area is thirds of a page (horizontal or vertical) so it reads left->right, up->down. The slices, then can be panoramic or tight shots, but you have to focus down pretty hard in each one, and they should relate in sequence. No dialog necessary!

Like, in a series of 3 verticals, as if you were pulling back the camera/focus.

1. Daddy Deadshot on balcony, aiming. We're looking right up the barrel of his...gun? Crossbow? and see his wicked smile.

2. Pull back: Getting him in context on that balcony, with the blur of running girl/people in foreground, indistinct

3. Foreground people running for their lives, and you still see him and are effectively in his line of sight.

Anyhow, that was one thought I had. You could use the same physical scene, just render from different viewpoints.

Keep it tight and claustrophobic, and even tilt the camera (same degree) throughout all three to make the scene even more harrowing.

puffle_huff

Nanobot said:
Until lately, Studio stuff would work in Poser. Not the recent shaders, but Poser has a zillion good shaders available as replacements (buy/free/beg).

You have a toon character, huh? I was going to say that LT and I (and others) have used Jepe's M4 Hairy with great success, albeit a tiny bit of adjustment required.

If there's something missing, you might be able to get help if you told us what it was. We're nice that way. >.>

I had the One Click Chest hair thing from DAZ and it's not compatible with PP as of yet. I read something about the creator having to make a patch or something like that...I didn't consider shaders...that's a pretty good idea.

Oh, gosh bad wording xD. Not an actual TOON, just a regular model that's my character from an RP. I also plan on buying Jepe's hair project tomorrow then I can start rendering like crazy again.

That's the only thing missing so far. Thanks for your help so far!!

Nanobot

Incompatible! Oh, boo hiss. I think it uses a Python script and the latest Posers updated to the latest Python. It's fouled up a lot of older products that way. Mind you, the big script-writers, Semidieu, Netherworks, and Dimension3d had their scripts fixed up within a couple of weeks of Poser 9's release...in October...

*cough* >.>

puffle_huff

xD

I'm too lazy to look up who makes the Chest MAT's I used. I'm already soo over it, but whoever he or she is may not feel like updating because I read that when they update they run the risk of offering free fixes, which coincidentally, are free versions of said product. Then again EVRYONE else seemed to have fixed it, but *shrugs* Meh.

Let me stop hamming up the w.i.p. thread with fuss and nonsense. .__.''

Raetjor

Nanobot said:

Raetjor said:

Nanobot said:
If I may be so bold, this sounds more like a sequence than a single image. You could do a triptych (three slim panels out of this without any problem, and thereby retain the really nice action sequence. I have an idea about that, if you want it.

Ooh, I like that. I have never tried to do a triptych. Hit me!

Amazing, as soon as you mentioned it, that was exactly what went on in front of my mental eye. It's a really cool idea. Now for lining up the shots...I shall report back soon.

Nanobot said:
I recall this being used to good effect in comics. Like, the area is thirds of a page (horizontal or vertical) so it reads left->right, up->down. The slices, then can be panoramic or tight shots, but you have to focus down pretty hard in each one, and they should relate in sequence. No dialog necessary!

Like, in a series of 3 verticals, as if you were pulling back the camera/focus.

1. Daddy Deadshot on balcony, aiming. We're looking right up the barrel of his...gun? Crossbow? and see his wicked smile.

2. Pull back: Getting him in context on that balcony, with the blur of running girl/people in foreground, indistinct

3. Foreground people running for their lives, and you still see him and are effectively in his line of sight.

Anyhow, that was one thought I had. You could use the same physical scene, just render from different viewpoints.

Keep it tight and claustrophobic, and even tilt the camera (same degree) throughout all three to make the scene even more harrowing.

Nanobot

*wonders what Boris was going to write there...*

GRIM

Nanobot said:
*wonders what Boris was going to write there...*

*Kinda does too...Cheeky grin!*

Raetjor

Yeah, me too... :P

Raetjor

My comment is actually in there just not where you would expect it. Go, Nano, unleash the hounds and sniff it out.

Nanobot

Fixed your post. Hah.

surochek

The Fixer.

Nanobot

surochek said:
The Fixer.

For that, I feel like I need a porkpie hat and a cigarette hanging out the corner of my mouth.

Terre

*snicker*

surochek

Porkpie hat?

And a lollipop would do for the cigar. Or a toothpick.

Nanobot

Cigars I like, cigarettes, no. Toothpick, yeah, in a pinch.

Hat.

surochek

Ah. Of course. Hat, for sure.

Nanobot

Well, some sort of Fedora is required. Aha! We have The Fedora, by Xaa...!

http://www.sharecg.com/v/42597/gallery/11/Poser/The-Fedora

surochek

Heee! Of course!

Raetjor

As I said earlier I'm looking to expand the universe Mitch, Mat(Mr Cyberarm), Hank 'Dreadz' and co. are operating and figured they needed some new baddies, so here they are:

(from the back) Daddy Deadshot, the hairiest elf assassin to prowl the streets.
Ralf 'The Dorf', brawny short-ass fixer,
and "The Pretty": Rayleene, tech and IT support.

Nanobot

And boy, they know how to have good parties, too! I love that Daddy blends into the black marble. :)

Was this the same dwarf he was trying to throttle a few pages back?

Raetjor

Yes, we'll observed, although he is wearing a different skin , this is Jepe's Jonah, previously he wore Jepe's Tye.
As for throttling, well, allegiances shift where money changes hands.

celticfire

Ummmmmm, yeah I must go pray now. Daddy Deadshot just did me in

Raetjor

celticfire said:
Ummmmmm, yeah I must go pray now. Daddy Deadshot just did me in

Sorry, Celtic, either my brain is not working- or you have just let slip that you have annoyed a AAA-rated company enough to have a price on your head. Either way, I take it as a compliment.

Raetjor

Btw, I tried getting the dwarf to have a wetter (kfox sweaty skin) but because his skinn has SSS it looked very strange, particularly his fingers and forearm, so that idea was shelved. The grrrrl is the same morph as in the pic with the green hair, but I re-sleeved her, too. She is now wearing a Godin skin with SSS as opposed to the Corinthiscori one she sported earlier. Her hair colour was matched to a burgundy red to match with her make up and the more somber tones of the evening. She is v4 WM wearing AS elven strapped.

celticfire

All in all Raet it looks amazing, but Daddy Deadshot is fucking hot!

Nanobot

I never show WIPs...but while I was painting hair and chatting with LT, this is the view that greeted me: naughty elf peeking over the bottom of the window! It was too cute. I had to share.
:))

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